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Renovation Edit

The Central Park Conservancy is conducting a second renovation of Belvedere Castle 35 years after the 1983 renovation. Plans include replacing existing doors and windows with double paned glass. When it was last renovated in 1983, the original turret was replaced, the pavilions were rebuilt, and the castle was converted into a visitor center.[1] In addition the Conservancy proposes to construct a new access path to ADA standards from the East Drive.[11] The proposed access path − actually an elevated ramp with parapets − has been criticized as creating an unnecessary wall in a naturalistic park.[12]

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Further reading Edit

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow et al., 1987. Rebuilding Central Park: A Management and Restoration Plan (MIT Press for the Central Park Conservancy).

(MIT Press for the Central Park Conservancy). Rosenzweig, Roy and Elizabeth Blackmar, 1992. The Park and the People: A History of central Park (Cornell University Press)